Unless he rolls a one and slams into a brick wall.

All the excitement happens after I bit the dust... You could have at least mounted my corpse on the front of the car to add a extra layer of armour by using my own armour.

I sank your blurship. Wait, what?

Hey blond, give Vlad a Cigar. He aint Russian if he does not have a cigar.

Or is that Cuban....

So I have full rest then? Very well!
CONTROL THE PUNY MIND OF ONE OF THE MASSIVE ANIMALS AND MAKE IT KILL SOMETHING OTHER THAN ME!

Bonus points if you ride a god damned giant boar.

He is Russian. Giant Bear.

Looks like all the actions are in, but I can't roll for like 8 hours; I have TAFE. So there will be a roll waiting for you all tomorrow morning.

That's about how I do it too, except I've mostly gotten past the make stuff up portion. I'm into the realm of concrete story now.

If your story is way too scripted and narrow, then the players don't really get much choice in their actions, making the RTD boring. If your story is too improvised and broad, then the players don't ever really hit a climax or ending- it's just repetitive playing. The key is having a good balance between the two.

I typically plan out a story with a basic beginning, middle, and end (like we learned in elementary school, children), interspersed with various rising actions (such as major events, boss battles, etc), with multiple paths of gameplay that still end up in the same place. Eg, if I'm going to have a place in the story where there's a literal fork in the road, I need to know what I can have happen if the players go left or right, and I need to have a decent amount of planning ready for multiple rolls if they choose either path- say, at least two or three. From there on, it's a 33/33/33 relationship; 33% of what's going on is scripted, 33% is improvised by the players, 33% is bullshitted by me. The other 1% is donated to charity. If there's a major deviation from the main linear story, then I'll usually let the players enjoy their little tangent until A, too much time passes, or B, they decide to get back to the main story by themselves.

Yes, that is why I was hinting not-so-subtly for you guise to hurry up when you were stuck at the Compound for about 60 pages. Then again, fun stuff happened there (the mournful loss of a helicopter... oh, and I think a couple of soldiers, but who cares) so whatever.

I think mine is more of 50/25/25
50% Scripted
25% Players
25% Bullshitted
Although, I've bullshitted and changed 50% of the scripted stuff, so...

So let's say, hypothetically, that for some strange reason you wanted me dead. There's not a thing in the world I could do to stop it? If it was part of the scripted?

^We don't predetermine the deaths of players- that defeats the whole purpose of rolling to avoid death.

Also, you could suicide in defiance.

I wouldn't put any specific player deaths as part of the scripted.
But if it was, then yeah you'd be pretty ♥♥♥♥.

Alternatively, you can be predestined to have a higher rate of survival, but this can be nullified through stupidity. (Eg "Oh cool I'm a central plot character, may as well blindly charge at this battalion of soldiers") We can do rewrites if we need to

DMs CAN CHANGE HISTORY >:C